(KMJ) – It was called “Operation Red Sol” and it has led to the arrest of 52 suspected gang members in Tulare County.
The TARGET Task Force, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department, the Visalia Police Department, the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office, and the California Department of Justice and California Highway Patrol’s Fresno-based Special Operations Unit (SOU) jointly conducted a multi-month investigation and today’s take down.
This multi-agency gang take down, led to the arrest of 52 individuals, including Pedro “Pistol Pete” Sanchez, a Norteño leader in charge of running the gang’s illicit day-to-day operations.
Those arrested face felony charges ranging from conspiracy to commit homicide, attempted homicide, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, extortion, home invasion, weapons possession and sales of narcotics.
This is the most violent group of Norteño gang members investigated by the Department of Justices’s Special Operations Unit to date.
The operation also resulted in the seizure of $34,000 in cash, six firearms and small amounts of narcotics.
